Chapter 946 Wesley Plan
The sea breeze was blowing, but it was warm.
Although it was already November, Luzon was still as hot as summer.
Before dark, Zhao Xu returned to Manila.
At this time, Zhou Yi had arranged a place for him to stay.
It was Ferrero's private sea view villa in Luzon.
He would stay here for the next period of time.
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At the same time.
When the Marines captured Manila, there were steamships in the West that were monitoring the actions of the Dasong fleet.
After Manila was captured, these steamships immediately returned to Malacca and then went to Calcutta to report the intelligence to Wesley.
"It took only one day to capture Manila?" Wesley looked embarrassed.
He thought that the Portuguese army in Manila could at least keep the Dasong army in Luzon for a month.
The Portuguese officers looked gloomy and angry.
This anger was naturally anger at Dasong, and the gloom was that they, the Portuguese, had lost Luzon.
There is no doubt that their Portuguese trade would suffer a heavy blow.
"Although the Portuguese army is not a strong army in the West, the fact that the Dasong army can defeat it so easily is enough to show that the Dasong army is really capable and should not be underestimated." Bolt said after a pause.
After a pause, he continued: "Next, the Dasong army will definitely stay in Luzon for a while to establish its own rule. During this time, we will transport more muskets and artillery to Australia and try to keep them east of Malacca for a longer time."
Wesley nodded.
After Luzon, the Dasong army will definitely eat up the colonies of the West east of Malacca one by one and establish supply points.
The final target is Malacca.
At present, the West Navy cannot gain an advantage in the naval battle, they just want to do everything they can to delay their attack on Malacca and wait for the West to send a fleet to support again.
Because only by defeating the Dasong Navy at sea can they reverse the unfavorable situation.
"I hope those prisoners in Australia can give the empire the last remaining heat." Wesley's face was grim.
He and Bolt are implementing a plan.
In addition to transporting muskets and artillery to Australia.
When each of their ships returned, they would be filled with young and strong prisoners from Australia.
After these young and strong prisoners arrived in Calcutta, they would be incorporated into a unique prisoner army for training.
The reason why he and Bolt suddenly came up with this idea was simple.
Because he realized that they could not provide enough muskets and artillery to the 500,000 prisoners and their descendants living in Australia in a short period of time.
And the Dasong army could launch an attack at any time.
Once the Dasong army controlled Australia, the population on Australian land would be wasted.
In this case, it would be better to use the Western Land Fleet to transport the strongest people to Tianzhu, train them safely, and provide them with muskets.
In this way, they can even double the number of the Western Land Army in Tianzhu.
After all, most of the people who can commit serious crimes and be deported to Australia are young and strong men, and they are also the main British population in Australia.
When fighting, they are an excellent source of soldiers.
As for the rest of the people, they are powerless.
They can only rely on themselves to resist the Dasong army.
"Don't worry, Oliver, the prisoner leader, is more ferocious than a lion on the grassland. They will make the Dasong army suffer." Bolt was very confident.
Even if they brought back the strongest people, this is only one-fifth of the population of Australia.
The remaining four-fifths is still a force that cannot be underestimated.
Although these prisoners live in this desolate place.
But they have the blood of the British in their bodies.
Facing the Dasong people, they will definitely take up arms to resist and safeguard the glory of Britain.
At that time, whether it is a seven-year-old child or a sixty-year-old man, they will become soldiers on the battlefield.
Wesley nodded after hearing this.
He looked in the direction of Luzon and sneered, "King Yan of Dasong, you are indeed very strong, but the powerful countries in the Western Continent eventually fell at the feet of our Britain, and you will not be an exception. Let you be proud for a while and enjoy this time. In the future, you will face cruel darkness."
As Ma Fuer said, this strategic retreat is just to retract the fist.
In the end, this fist will be thrown out.
During this period, he has been carefully preparing his hunting plan.
Although the south of Dasong seems calm at the moment.
But the King of Yan of Dasong would never have thought that his army general was creating a very strong storm.
This storm would destroy Dasong.
He did not believe that an indigenous country in the East could withstand the joint stranglehold of the Beidi and their Western world.
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Manila.
The days after the war suddenly became free.
In order not to be bored, Zhao Xu and Zhou Yi were busy reconstructing the governance system of Luzon every day, and occasionally discussed the matter of attacking Australia.
At the same time, good news continued to come from Cebu and Cotton Island.
Under the joint encirclement of the Navy and the Marine Corps, the participating Portuguese troops were eliminated one by one.
Cebu and Cotton Island will soon be included in the jurisdiction of the Protectorate.
Half a month later, the fleet sent by the Ministry of Commerce arrived.
To his surprise, the first batch of merchant ships that arrived were all commercial transport steamships built by civilian shipyards.
At the same time, there was another person who surprised him.
It was Qu Sheng, who was obviously impatient to see the rubber.